Hannity Posts Petition To Turn Off State Dept’s Air Conditioning… Sign It Now!

Sean Hannity shared a brilliant response to Secretary of State John Kerry‘s remarks earlier in the week that chemicals used in air conditioners posed as much of a threat to society as terrorists like the Islamic State group, and we think it’s a pretty good one.

The Fox News host described the online petition at Change.org that called for the removal of all air conditioning from U.S. State Department property because, according to Kerry, it was harming the climate.

The petition read that since Kerry suggested that air conditioners were as big a threat as the Islamic State group and “it is the duty of our elected and appointed government officials to lead by example … we call upon the U.S. Department of State to remove air conditioning from all property that the department owns, rents or otherwise employs.”

Kerry made the remarks earlier in the week while he was in Vienna negotiating the 1987 Montreal Protocol, an agreement aimed at phasing out hydrofluorocarbons, the chemical coolants used in air conditioners. He told the group there that he had just returned from a meeting in Washington where he was working together on the challenge posed by the Islamic State group.

“It’s hard for some people to grasp it, but what we — you — are doing here right now is of equal importance because it has the ability to literally save life on the planet itself,” he said.

The petition had by Wednesday afternoon already amassed over 16,000 signatures since being posted on Sunday, and in a span of less than half an hour Wednesday it garnered over 1,250 of those. It appeared well on its way to collecting the requested 25,000 signatures — and probably many more.

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According to Hannity, the petition would be delivered to President Barack Obama once it had 15,000 signatures, although it’s hard to understand by looking at the petition itself where that number came from.

It’s unlikely Obama will do anything about the petition, but it’s good to send those in Washington a reminder that we, the people, are paying attention to what they’re saying and doing — particularly when it’s as ridiculous as John Kerry’s comments were.

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